# Robertson Davies: on Wit God grant that I may never be a Dry Wit. Let me be a Wet Wit! Let me pour forth what mirth I have until I am utterly empty -- a Nit Wit. From _Tempest-Tost_, first book of [the Salterton Trilogy](https://books.google.com/books?isbn=014015910X); my source: p.149 of the 1986 Penguin Books paperback Davies argues (indirectly) that alcohol ain't all bad... ---- [Back to the Meditations collection](meditations)